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Quotes About Perseverance

Nothing can interrupt it yet all can break it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Faith, even when profound, is never complete. It has to be endlessly sustained or, at least, preserved from destruction.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.
~ Unknown
Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.
~ John Wooden
Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.
~ John Wooden
My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.
~ Johnny Vegas
It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.
~ Josh Lucas
Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.
~ Joshua Slocum
Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.
~ Joss Whedon
I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.
~ Jules Olitski
I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.
~ Julianna Margulies
I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity
~ Karl Malone
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.
~ Kathryn Schulz
The independent project, in a general way, requests a constant work to spread, in the traditional way and in the alternative circuit. It is a fight... but I believe that it is the way.
~ Katya Chamma
That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.
~ Kelly Lynch
You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.
~ Ken Burns
Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!
~ Kevin Durant
You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.
~ Khem Veasna
In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
~ Kim Stanley
Everybody shut up. Let us work.
~ Kobe Bryant
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
~ Koichi Tanaka
Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
~ Kristi Yamaguchi
The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
~ Laini Taylor